Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frontier strapping Greater German Nazis were more than ready to arrest, punish the tragic unfortunates for "illegal entry," but 15 Jews broke away and made for the Danube. They eluded Nazi and Hungarian pursuers and managed to spend the night shivering on a sandspit. In the morning a French patrol boat took them aboard, compassionately anchored in mid-Danube, awaited orders from new Premier Edouard Daladier...
...factor which works toward preservation of the status quo, he explained, is the strong French cabinet formed from the right and center. "I do not expect any break at the Czechoslovakian frontier as long as the present cabinet is in power in France," he declared...
...shirts, smoking the best cigars. At restaurants just inside the French border they could be seen swizzling champagne, ordering such delicacies as speckled trout, fresh asparagus, vieux cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week, the French driver was killed, four large cases of "foodstuffs" broke open, and out rolled war plane motors. At Honfleur...
Meanwhile, in groups large & small, many Leftist Spanish soldiers came half-famished through the crags of the Pyrenees, stumbling over crests white with eternal snow (see cut). They straggled down the valleys, handed their guns to French frontier guards, entered refugee camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout, only spring water and stew dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have...
...thus won "The Key to Barcelona," as even the Leftists have called Lérida, but it was 80 miles to the keyhole. With General Yague just starting keyholeward this week, twelve assorted Rightist forces were all making unchallenged claims to sweeping victories all the way from the French frontier which was smothered with refugees, down to Teruel. A major Rightist drive hurled itself down the widening valley of the Ebro River, and with Leftists surrendering so fast that what to do with so many prisoners became an acute Rightist problem, the Generalissimo besieged Tortosa from the land with troops...